It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.